Part of Adams Morgan’s charm Sunday mornings is seeing all the trash (mainly oversized pizza slice paper plates) and other remainders from the night before strewn among the worn sidewalks and streets. But just as Georgetown’s streets have been under massive reconstruction the past four years to eliminate manhole explosions, the city’s other bar crawl district could be slated for a sidewalk clean-up and reconstruction of its own.

Adams Morgan’s advisory neighborhood commission has recently considered different plans to rebuild the neighborhood’s key intersection, 18th Street/Adams Mill Road and Columbia Road, which most weekend nights is a clogged traffic quagmire of taxis, cars, buses and Hummer limos with Virginia plates. One plan narrows both Columbia and 18th/Adams Mill to one lane in each direction through the intersection. Another puts a traffic circle smack dab in the middle of the whole mess.

Each plan would increase pedestrian/party-goer safety by reconfiguring sidewalks and incorporate new bike lanes. Not included is room for light-rail expansion. 18th Street has been slated as a potential crosstown light-rail corridor between Woodley Park and Northeast D.C. under long-term District transportation plans. DCist would like a taxi stand at each end of the 18th Street strip to avoid having to strategize which street corners will be easier to hail a cab from late at night.